Southwest Christian has a brand new athletic director.
The personal faculty in Chaska has introduced the hiring of Jay Mayes as the brand new athletic director at Southwest Christian Excessive College.
Mayes replaces present athletic director Darin Keizer, who was named athletic director at Sioux Middle, Iowa-based Dordt College in January.
Keizer has been the AD at Southwest Christian since 2014.
Mayes involves Southwest Christian from the College of Northwestern-St. Paul, the place he serves as the pinnacle males's lacrosse coach and coordinator of athletic operations. Mayes additionally coached on the College of Arizona and Gordon Faculty.
Previous to teaching, Mayes held numerous gross sales/advertising and marketing positions with BMORE Inventive, Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx, Portland LumberJax and Baltimore Ravens.
“All through the interview course of, I used to be extraordinarily impressed with Jay's passionate dedication to creating mature disciples of Jesus Christ via athletics,” mentioned Head of College Dan Beckering. “Jay's expertise, expertise in enterprise, teaching, schooling and his robust dedication to the gospel can be a terrific blessing to our athletes, coaches and group. I’m thrilled to have Jay be part of our management workforce.”
“I’m humbled and actually blessed to step into the position of athletic director at Southwest Christian,” Mayes mentioned. “The chance to guide and serve in a world-class faith-based surroundings like Southwest Christian is a calling I settle for with nice anticipation and pleasure. I sit up for persevering with to domesticate a tradition of excellence, integrity and religion in all of our athletic applications at SWCHS. I’m grateful for this chance and sit up for the subsequent journey.
Mayes will start his position as athletic director in June.
